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Minutes from DLI Projects Meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Wed Sep 15 19:03:54 1993
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 93 19:02:46 EST
From: tjm@MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
To: wdc@MIT.EDU, owens@MIT.EDU, ninadm@MIT.EDU, mcharity@MIT.EDU,
Cc: ppt@MIT.EDU, is-minutes@MIT.EDU, dcns-dev@MIT.EDU
DLI Projects Team
Meeting: 9/14/93
Attending: wdc, owens, mcharity, ninadm, tjm
We were scheduled to discuss the following list of project areas (* indicates an
addition to the agenda since the announcement was published):
1. A New Network OPAC
2. Library Services from Athena
3. TULIP
4. Slash 8000
5. Medline
6. FirstSearch
For each of these, we discussed, and we report below,
*** Last Month's Goals (verbatim from 9/93 report)
A. Good Things Done Lately (aka Accomplishments)
B. Goals for 10/15/93
C. Issues and
D. Long-term Goals.
1. A New Network OPAC
*** rollout new tty interface to Barton 8/23, eliminating VT100 interface
*** take alpha snapshot of Willow version 2 from U. W.
*** finish coding of BIB routines to display full record
A. Completed new tty interface rollout.
Took ** BETA ** snapshot of Willow V2
Made significant progress on BIB routines, but some work remains.
B. Take delivery of new version of Newton that supports SCAN.
Take delivery of new version of Finkbeiner Z39.50 that supports SCAN.
Complete coding of BIB routines on Maxine.
Begin porting of BIB routines to other platforms.
Begin integration of all of the above pieces to make a new client.
C. None.
D. None.
2. Library Services from Athena
*** None
A. NUT group nears official formation.
B. Establish clear mission and scope for NUT, and begin work.
C. None.
D. None.
3. TULIP
*** Mount complete set of TULIP TOC data in Newton from CD received
to date.
*** Resolve (or advance) the FTP policy from Elsevier
*** Determine priority for TULIP project
*** Followup on Mitchell's recent suggestion to dlicc
A. Mounted all TULIP TOC data that we could find. There are CDs
in the series that we have either not received, or lost.
Sent FTP policy proposal to Elsevier, who have it under advisement.
No progress on priority/funding/management of TULIP project.
B. Reconsider Mitchell's proposal for a prototype effort.
C. No new ones beyond above.
D. None.
4. Slash 8000
*** This is an ongoing effort, and will probably only increase.
A. NOTIS the finalist, discussions on contract and beta test partnership
pending.
Data migration tool for use on GEAC data in-place completed & tested.
B. NOTIS visits MIT 9/15.
Begin use of Data migration tool on GEAC data in preparation for
move to NOTIS(?).
C. None.
D. None.
5. Medline
*** develop and articulate a strategy for support transition from
*** current local db model to the firstsearch model
A. Meeting to examine current support model occurred.
Determined BRS/Search has been licensed thru 8/94, so there's no
big rush on the software.
Have not determined if MEDLINE fee has been paid for 93-94,
and if so, by whom.
We continue to get tapes from Maxwell, and to mount them.
Speedy move to FirstSearch for Medline hung up on issues around
getting FirstSearch up and running at OCLC and here, the latter
being the issue of so-called "password hiding".
B. Continue discussion on "password hiding" at next elibdev.
Continue to refine new support model for MEDLINE users on campus.
C. None.
D. None.
6. FirstSearch
*** develop a plan for using tfirst for access to MEDLINE via FirstSeach
A. No progress.
B. Same as last month.
C. None.
D. None.
Other comments:
Tom would like to have some forum where we could discuss technical
options in more detail, debate merits, etc., and make decisions. The
lack of a more formal structure for elib development projects was
identified. As a first step towards solving this, the October meeting
of this kind will be 2 hours to allow time for status reporting, goal
setting, as well as technical discussion.
Bill has been keeping a task list going on several of his projects. It
is included verbatim below.
---- begin Bill's list
Bill's DLI Workplan
last updated: September 14, 1993
Willow 1.3.4 Milestones:
Fix Z39.50 driver hanging on sending Trig Res Ctl. (Verify Option bits.)
Compile and Test on all Platforms. (Vax, DECstation, Sun, RS/6000)
Demonstrate to Nut.
Deploy
Fine tune install scripts.
Add Owens Marc Routines
Deploy
Add First Search DB's
Deploy
Add OPAC
Deploy
Add First Search Medline DB
Deploy
Medline Milestones:
Delete origen accounts
Produce new db.conf containing MIT Medline and First Search dbs.
Test Willow Z39.50 driver for interruptability and robustness.
Add Owens Marc routines to driver.
Compile Willow on all platforms.
Upgrade Origen to AIX 3.2/BRS 6.1 (verify .tbl files)
Deploy Development version of Willow (1.3.4)
Training of Librarians on Willow and FirstSearch Medline.
Add parallel First Search Medline to db.conf
Verify First Search Medline functionality.
Turn off MIT Medline.
OPAC Milestones:
Willow 2.0 from UW (Expect ~Sept 7)
Move ListServer code from willow to driver.
SCAN support in Newton
New Z39.50 API from Stanford (expect ~ Sept 7)
Integrate MIT changes and Stanford Changes in Z39.50 API.
Test SCAN on existing MIT Newton OPAC using zclient.
Make new z39.50 driver with SCAN.
Verify that all queries desired are possible: adj especially!
New MARC format routines from Owens
Format Rules for MARC displays OPAC from NUT
New Snapshot of OPAC from Owens
OPAC update procedure documented and established
Load new Snapshot into Newton
Train Librarians on Willow and OPAC.
New indexing rules from Librarians
Periodic re-indexing
Tulip Milestones
First Search Milestones
---- end of Bill's List
